Example sentences of "and [verb] [verb] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE United States and Russia yesterday challenged Arabs and Israelis to resume peace talks in April and agreed to hold a first summit between Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin . |
| 2 | In later years he was once asked whether he , who was shy , was anguished when forced to go out visiting homes in Liverpool and to try to make the first touch with a strange family . |
| 3 | As they reached the trees they heard a wild burst of cheering and turned to see the first tongues of flame licking up the walls of the cainca . |
| 4 | Misreading the clues , they head off in completely the wrong direction and manage to become the first people ever to get shipwrecked on one of the islands of Derwentwater . |
| 5 | The 1844 Report hints however that there had been some decline in standards at the lower end of the School , and urged that " prior to admission the Boys should be able to read and write and have learned the first principles of English grammar . |
| 6 | Moore is said to have been a pioneer in producing a periodical for seamen , the Mariners ' Journal , which was published briefly between 185I and 1854 , and to have advocated the first system of paid shore based officials to look after the interests of their members while they were at sea . |
| 7 | The alluvial marsh was supposed to have been the site of an ancient royal swannery , and to have contributed the first syllable to the name Swanwic , mentioned in Domesday , though Old English ‘ swan ’ appears to derive from swineherd . |
| 8 | The 59-member BLDC had been appointed by the NPC in June 1985 [ see p. 33660 ] and had published a first draft of the Basic Law in May 1988 and a second draft in February 1989 [ see p. 36763 ] . |
| 9 | Viscount Melbourne became Prime Minister in July 1835 , but by the end of that year , it was necessary for the Duke of Wellington to become Prime Minister for a short period , followed for about one year by Sir Robert Peel , who had been Home Secretary and had introduced the first Police Force , enrolling men who soon became known as ‘ Peelers ’ or ‘ Bobbies ’ , after the founder . |
| 10 | The first letter is very probably authentic , the second probably forged and intended to reinforce the first letter . |